A Florida Enchantment

A Florida Enchantment Information

A Florida Enchantment (1914) is a silent film directed by and starring Sidney Drew and released by Vitagraph Studios. The film is based on the 1891 novel and 1896 play (now lost) of the same name written by Fergus Redmond and Archibald Clavering Gunter.

Plot

In the film, Lillian Travers, a wealthy Northern woman about to be married, takes a magical seed which transforms its user into the opposite gender. Lillian's transformation into Lawrence Talbot has also sometimes been read as a transformation into a butch lesbian. This reading is bolstered by the later transformation of Lillian's fiancé into what could be an effemininate gay man. However, as Lillian and her fiancé are shown attracted both to each other and to the same sex (albeit at different times), the film has also been considered to have the first documented appearance of bisexual characters in an American motion picture.

Production background

The film is also known for its use of blackface antics; an aspect carefully dissected in Siobhan Somerville's "Queering the Color Line." Since its inclusion in Vito Russo's The Celluloid Closet, the film has increasingly been seen as one of the earliest film representations of homosexuality and cross-dressing in American culture.

Cast

Edith Storey - Lillian Travers/Lawrence Talbot
Sidney Drew - Dr. Frederick Cassadene
Ethel Lloyd - Jane
Grace Stevens - Constancia Oglethorpe
Charles Kent - Major Horton
Jane Morrow - Bessie Horton
Ada Gifford - Stella Lovejoy
Lillian Burns - Malvina
Allan Campbell - Stockton Remington
Cortland van Deusen - Charley Wilkes
Frank O'Neil - Gustavus Duncan

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